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Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (https://hub.litmuschaos.io ...

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Photo: Rikard Osterlund For 12 evenings across January and February, 11 temporary light artworks and sculptures are dotted among the skyscrapers of east London for Canary Wharf Winter Lights.